Building Civilizations on Primitive Planets
7. Geography of the New World

The area where Rihlah was teleported was the Great Fantastica Islands, where the name of the archipelago was taken from the name of a large empire that once united several kingdoms in several small islands in the Alaves Ocean. The Great Fantastica Islands are now divided into 7 smaller kingdoms where the former capital of Fantastica, is located, final Fantasy City is now the capital of the kingdom of Faranina located in the Left Fanin Islands precisely on the Big Left Fanin Island which is the largest and the only inhabited island in the archipelago. The kingdom of Fantastica collapsed after a civil war between the royal families where finally the other kingdoms in the conquered Fantastica Kingdom began to break away.

As for the effect of the civil war was the emergence of the kingdom of Beautiful Feris in the Right Fanin Islands which was the kingdom of the divided Fantastica Royal family. The capital of the kingdom of Feris Indah is the city of Fantasia located on the island of Fanin Kanan Besar which became the largest island in the Faran Kanan archipelago. The kingdoms of Faranina and Feris Indah had a long feud after the breakup of the Kingdom of Fantastica, but after almost 200 years of conflict, the, now both are peaceful and allied kingdoms in complicated cooperation considering the extent of these 2 kingdoms and the population is not large and can be threatened at any time by other kingdoms in the Fantastica Kingdom they once conquered.

To the north of the two kingdoms there is the Papalepap Islands controlled by the Suleka Kingdom which has its capital in the city of Kebon Gede. To the west of the Papalepap Islands there is the Nexian Islands where the Samiam Kingdom is in power and its king is located in the Queen Coconut City. These two kingdoms were hostile to each other even before being united in the Kingdom of Fantastica.

Rihlah position is currently located to the south of Grand Papalepap Island which has 11 cities including Kebon Gede and is the largest island in the archipelago. There are 4 large inhabited islands in this archipelago. In addition to Grand Papalepap Island which we have called there are Pale Pale Island, Papale Island and Supargoy Island.

11 Cities located on Grand Papalepap Island include Kebon Gede, Keplakrejo, Kebon Sapi, Tampak Sirih, Jayagelang, Ranajaya, Kutapura, Gunungmacan, Kalikucing, Tegalwangi and Sumberurip. Pale Pale Island has 3 cities namely Klobot, Klinting and Glendung. On Papale Island there is only the city of Guyangan and on Supargoy Island there is the city of Konan and the City of Kiren.

Rihlah is now located at the southeast end of Grand Papalepap island which in the waters there are 17 clusters of small uninhabited coral islands so as to make the atmosphere as if in Raja Ampat. This area is actually still under the control of Resident Tegalwangi, but the rihlah is now in a region that is really remote area. Rainforest type tropical lowland forest away from the hustle of Tegalwangi city. It is said that in this forest there are many wild animals where the most feared is the Fantastica Tiger which is now only hundreds of inhabitants left in the forests of the southern part of Grand Papalepap which is included in the Kalikucing region, Tegalwangi and Sumberurip.

Hundreds of years ago the Fantastica Tigers spread across all the islands around Papalepap but shrinking time and now there are only hundreds left in the south of the island of Grand Papalepap only. Therefore, now the animal is protected and the forest habitat is used as a forbidden forest to preserve the tiger population with the territory managed by 3 nearby cities. At the very end of the Forbidden Forest area there is a ruined fort named Tanjung Pagar which is an abandoned fortress at the mouth of a small river called the Tabuan Lasi river. Tanjung Pagar Fort is to the west of the Tabuan Lasi estuary and enters the territory controlled by Sumberurip Resident with a river that borders the area with Tegalwangi. Tanjung Pagar Fort was abandoned when Fantastica conquered the Papalepap Islands. This fortress is actually not feasible if it is called a fortress when compared to the civilization on Earth. This small fort is only square in size with a stone wall as high as 3.5 meters and as thick as 1.2 meters without any bastion at the highest and widest size. Tanjung Pagar has an area of 60x60 meters. With that height, this fortress in ancient times was considered to be capable as a defense and monitoring location on the southern tip of the island because the average height of humans in this archipelago for men 155-165 cm and for women 140-150 cm. Compare with the height of Zayn which is 181 cm and Udin 175 cm which is clearly a dashing figure among the people there. The height of Prince Johnny who they captive was only 168 cm when he was a high noble who got better access to food than the average of other people.

Oh yes in the northern part of the islands there are still Nogogi Islands controlled by Nobuhara Kingdom, Right Mblarak Islands and Left Mblarak Islands controlled by the Mblagador Kingdom and Mbeling Kingdom.

The Fantastica Islands are located to the east of the Jayamas Continent and the Jayati Continent which is also sometimes referred to as the left and right continents, these two Continents are separated by sea. The ocean around the Fantastica Islands is called the Ocean of Alaves. The Suleka kingdom that controlled the Papalepap Islands was founded by King Sule who managed to free this region from Fantastica occupation. Now the kingdom of Suleka is led by Prince Johnny's father who is the 9th king and named King Siffredi who has a wife named Queen Rosa. The couple has 7 sons, Crown Prince Jordi, the elder brother of Johnny. The Crown Prince also served as a supreme warlord who controlled all military elements on land and sea aimed at minimizing the appearance of internal coups. The other sons of the king are usually appointed to be Ministers, Residents and Ambassadors. Especially in the position of residence appointed by the palace, they were assisted by local officials who we call Patih who is the person from the most influential family in the city. Patih is usually hereditary and will be contested from other powerful families in the city if the patih has no offspring.

Johnny, now held captive by Zayn and Udin, is a foreign minister who also owns an elite slave business. He did not go into his job as a minister. Every day the ministry is controlled by its cousin Rocco as a vice minister who is really serious about working.

The resident of Tegalwangi is Stagliano who is the younger brother of King Siffredi and the Resident of Sumberurip is Lexington who is the king's cousin. In the island culture, the title can only be used by the king's nuclear family, so the king's younger brothers and children already do not have titles and can not bear the title of prince. They are only referred to from the current or ever held office.

In the economy of island and continental people use metal currency.100 pieces of copper money worth 10 pieces of silver and 1 piece of gold money. 1 piece of copper money can be used to buy 1 portion of food in general or if estimated at the exchange rate of Rupiah may be around 25,000 rupiah. For smaller units of measurement they use money printed from sapphire rocks with a size of 10 stones equal to 1 copper coin. There is no difference in exchange rates in islands and continents but there are different prints and money writings that are launched by each king in power. The more they print money is a prestige. Sometimes currencies from other countries are melted down for reprinting when a king is crowned and that is the most practical way. As for jewelry they usually use gold and silver combined with pearls or natural rocks. Usually gold and jewelry are obtained from the melting of gold and silver from the property owned. Precious metals in the form of bars are not freely traded here. The mines and treasures of precious metals are heavily guarded and kept by the kingdom for when at any time they can be minted as currency coins if needed, especially at the time of the coronation of the new king.

Island communities throughout the Fantastica Kingdom have a generally relaxed and unhurried nature even when at war. They tend to be more pacifist than people on the continent. Perhaps on earth can be equated with the people of the archipelago and other islands in the Pacific. Throughout the Fantastica Kingdom people embraced polytheistic beliefs that worshiped many Gods. The supreme god is the God Gogon who is referred to as the leader of the gods. The Polytheist belief in the archipelago comes from the Jayamas continent which has actually now begun to be abandoned there.

The kingdoms of Jayamas now have a majority of monotheistic beliefs that worship a single god they call the One. Zayn and Udin are stupid with the beliefs of the people here. For those who are important to remain diligent in carrying out daily religious rituals and not dealing with the human faith that is here. For them there is no preach for humans who are not on Planet Earth.

This knowledge of geography was acquired and soon recorded by Udin in a kaleidoscope of knowledge gained by chatting the threesome with Johnny throughout the morning of their second day. Earlier in the night they discovered the fact after seeing a cluster of stars if they were on a planet in the Ursa Major Galaxy. Luckily they have thousands of science applications installed in rihlah and can be accessed offline.

At the end of the second day, the two of them had decided on their next goal: to immediately go to the fortress of Tanjung Pagar and fix it as their headquarters on this new planet.

Johnny who is fascinated by the technology and knowledge brought by Zayn and Udin is willing to become a pawn of Zayn and Udin in the new world in exchange for being helped to realize himself as the ruler of the Suleka Kingdom by seizing the rights of the Prince Jordi who he doesn't like. Actually, Johnny was never quite as smart as in his mind to take power. But Zayn and Udin have opened their eyes, he sees a chance of victory if they join forces. Therefore, the status of a slave is not what the origin of being a slave is allowed to control a kingdom. But Zayn and Udin certainly never thought that shallow.

In the afternoon of the second day it was decided they sailed that night also to Tanjung Pagar after Isya at 19:20 when the East Coast of America referred to the hours found in Rihlah. SS Rihlah will pull the SS Valhalla using a battery-powered engine and their mini reactor. With a cruising speed of 12 knots with an estimated they will reach Tanjung Pagar in just 2 hours, 3 Times faster than sailing using paddles and sails with wind conditions like now and must maneuver through several clusters of coral islands.

Slaves in Valhalla have been divided by 2 with the details of Johnny and 3 soldiers named Sean, Danu and Andi under the authority of Zayn with a 22-year-old woman named Anna, two teenagers aged 18 and 14 named Rani and Gina and Brian and Octa who were 5 and 3 years old. They were the sons of a minister by his second wife. While Udin chose Sena who was once a young officer in the Samiam Kingdom army with 3 soldiers named Rio, Wawan and Sugeng. Udin also took slaves from the children of the corrupt minister's first wife who was executed along with his wives, they named 23-year-old Rena, 17-year-old Anggi, Dian is 13 years old and a pair of twins named Dona and Doni who are 5 years old. Actually they messed with the presence of 4 toddlers in their entourage, but Zayn convinced Udin with his long-term plan.

21.20 The group has arrived and removed the anchor 2 miles from the fortress of Tanjung Pagar which appears as a ruin with a grove of bushes and even large trees that grow in it. Zayn who was tired of driving Rihlah decided to rest at 22:00. For tonight who is on guard in Rihlah until 01:00 is Udin who will later alternate with Zayn who will be on guard until 04:00.

Udin immediately flew a drone to do the mapping of the fort and drew a reconstruction sketch to fill his time.